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Car Review: The VW Golf GTI is a polished hot hatch that's still fun and practical 11/27/2023 05:49am • The VW Golf GTI Autobahn is a grown-up hot hatch with more power and still available manual transmission for now. (WTOP/Mike Parris) The hot hatch was born 40 years ago when Volkswagen gave its sensible five-door hatch more power, improved suspension and some styling tweaks. The GTI has been a stapl Cut your own Christmas tree at this Maryland family-owned farm 11/27/2023 01:30am • With Thanksgiving over, you might start to see more cars topped with Christmas trees hitting the streets. The day after Thanksgiving is a “busy, busy day” for Jerry, the “fresh-cut guy,” running the chain saw at Butler’s Orchard farms in Montgomery County, Maryland. “I love it out How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate? A long push for progress and energy to fuel it 11/27/2023 12:02am • Amid record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb a centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. For hundreds of years, people have shape How did humans get to the brink of crashing climate? A long push for progress and energy to fuel it 11/27/2023 12:01am • Amidst record-high temperatures, deluges, droughts and wildfires, leaders are convening for another round of United Nations climate talks later this month that seek to curb the centuries-long trend of humans spewing ever more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. For hundreds of years, people have s Heavy snowfall in Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova leaves 1 person dead and many without electricity 11/26/2023 08:39pm • BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Heavy snowfall and strong blizzards in Romania and Moldova on Sunday left one person dead and hundreds of localities without electricity, as well as forcing the closure of some national roads, authorities said. A 40-year-old man in Moldova died on Sunday after the vehicle Schools in Portland, Oregon, reach tentative deal with teachers union after nearly month-long strike 11/26/2023 08:38pm • PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Oregon’s largest school district said late Sunday it had reached a tentative agreement with its teachers union and roughly 45,000 students would be back in school Monday after more than three weeks without classes. The agreement must still be voted on by teachers who have Iowa's Kirk Ferentz knows beating No. 2 Michigan would be tall task. He says 'anything is possible' 11/26/2023 06:24pm • Other than the people inside the Iowa football building and the team's most optimistic fans, few expect the Hawkeyes to pose much of a challenge to Michigan in the Big Ten championship game. Doubts that the No. 18 Hawkeyes (10-2) can upset the second-ranked Wolverines (12-0) are illustrated by the p F1 champion Max Verstappen's record-extending 19th win underlines his relentless drive 11/26/2023 01:12pm • Although Max Verstappen clinched his third straight Formula One title almost two months ago at the Qatar GP there was never any chance of him easing up. He’s won every race since and capped off an outstanding year with a record-extending 19th victory of the season at the Abu Dhabi GP on Sunday. Over 900 carjackings reported in DC this year amid increase in crime, data shows 11/26/2023 09:57am • According to data from D.C. police, there have been over 900 reported carjackings in the District this year amid the increase of crime in the city. Police said that 77% of those carjackings involved a gun. The numbers also revealed that there have been close to 160 arrests for carjackings, with 6 Lawyer for Italian student arrested in ex-girlfriend's slaying says he's disoriented, had psych exam 11/26/2023 09:28am • ROME (AP) — An Italian man who was extradited from Germany for the kidnapping and slaying of his former girlfriend hasn't yet spoken about the “merits” of the accusations and will appear before a judge on Tuesday, his lawyer said. The hearing before the judge to decide whether Filippo Turetta American spending has kept the economy going since the pandemic. It may finally be stopping, in charts 11/26/2023 09:00am • Not even two years of soaring prices and mounting interest rates have stopped Americans from opening their wallets and tapping their credit cards.The consumer’s willingness to keep paying high prices has kept the US economy relatively strong, but that attitude could soon be shifting. Some experts Israeli forces kill at least 8 Palestinians in surging West Bank violence, health officials say 11/26/2023 05:36am • JENIN REFUGEE CAMP, West Bank (AP) — Israeli forces operating in the occupied West Bank killed at least eight Palestinians, including at least one militant, in a 24-hour period, Palestinian health officials said Sunday, as a fragile pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip ente Dead, wounded or AWOL: The voices of desperate Russian soldiers trying to get out of the Ukraine war 11/26/2023 01:04am • In audio intercepts from the front lines in Ukraine, Russian soldiers speak in shorthand of 200s to mean dead, 300s to mean wounded. The urge to flee has become common enough that they also talk of 500s — people who refuse to fight. As the war grinds into its second winter, a growing number of Rus Riverdale community mourns 2 children struck, killed outside school 11/25/2023 10:58pm • Members of the Riverdale community in Prince George's County, Maryland, came together on the grounds of Riverdale Elementary School at sunset Saturday for a candlelight vigil in memory of the two children struck and killed outside their school Monday morning. Shalom Mbah, 10, and Sky Sosa, 5, wer Lebanese residents of border towns come back during a fragile cease-fire between Hamas and Israel 11/25/2023 05:30pm • KFAR KILA, Lebanon (AP) — With a cautious calm prevailing over the border area in south Lebanon on Saturday, the second day of a four-day cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, villages that had emptied of their residents came back to life — at least briefly. Shuttered shops reopened, cars moved t